"Winter's Bone," "Flag" Top Florida Fest Winners

The 19th annual Florida Film Festival concluded this weekend, handing out its juried and audience awards in a variety of categories. Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Winter's Bone" led the narrative jury winners, while Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's "How To Hold a Flag" led in the documentary jury category. Audiences opted for two different films, with Cruz Angeles's "Don't Let Me Drown" and Marshall Curry's "Racing Dreams" winning the narrative and doc audience awards, respectively.

The 19th annual Florida Film Festival concluded this weekend, handing out its juried and audience awards in a variety of categories. Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Winter's Bone" led the narrative jury winners, while Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's "How To Hold a Flag" led in the documentary jury category. Audiences opted for two different films, with Cruz Angeles's "Don't Let Me Drown" and Marshall Curry's "Racing Dreams" winning the narrative and doc audience awards, respectively.

Special Jury Award For Narrative Filmmaking:Homewrecker, Directed By Brad and Todd Barnes

Left to right are FFF documentary competition entry “How to Fold a Flag” co-director Michael Tucker (“The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair,” “Gunner Palace”, all directed with his partner Petra Epperlein), Enzian programming director Matthew Curtis and sub-genre consulting founder Brian Newman who is serving on this year’s FFF shorts jury. Something to note: The Florida Film Festival is an official Academy Awards qualifying festival for dramatic shorts. The grand jury prize-winner of the dramatic short award is eligible to submit their film for Oscar consideration. Photo by Mark Rabinowitz.